Minnie Driver In Neck Brace Post-crash: 'reason I'm Not Dead Is The Car We Were Driving'

Minnie Driver’s Paris adventures went awry this week erstwhile she was progressive successful a car mishap that she’s describing arsenic a frightening adjacent call.

On Thursday, nan character — who has posted a bid of “Paris Update” videos for her fans complete nan past 2 months while filming nan sixth play of “Emily successful Paris” — updated fans pinch a video posted to Instagram successful which she appeared successful a cervix brace and recounted a harrowing adjacent call. “Paris update is that I americium really backmost successful London,” nan video began.

“I sewage into a really bad car mishap a fewer days agone pinch my friend Ben, and we someway walked retired of it,” she said. “Well, we didn’t locomotion retired of it. We crawled retired of it, but we did get retired of it alive.”

Driver said nan mishap wasn’t their fault, and that they were cruising down a state roadworthy successful nan mediate of France erstwhile different conveyance grounded to extremity astatine an intersection.

“We conscionable T-boned it,” she said. “I’m fine. I’ve sewage a sprained neck, and I’m really successful daze and benignant of outcry each nan time, but I’m going to heal.”

According to Deadline, accumulation connected “Emily successful Paris” will proceed arsenic planned speech from 1 segment involving Driver that had to beryllium rescheduled. She plans to return to her domiciled arsenic Princess Jane erstwhile she recovers.

“The logic that I’m not dead, honestly, is nan car that we were driving,” she continued successful her update, adding that 360-degree airbags successful nan “tiny Kia” she was riding successful saved their lives. “The truth that nan full car didn’t conscionable concertina and crush america is down to nan creation of that car, which is frankly astonishing.”

Driver assured her followers that nan video wasn’t a car advertisement — “Can you ideate if that’s what I was doing?” — but nan character appeared grateful and wanted to springiness owed credit, each pinch her consciousness of joke still intact.

“I’m a mini driver, pun intended. I request to observe nan car that saved us, because we’ve sewage families and group who emotion us, and I americium truthful grateful to beryllium alive,” she said. “So, Kia, you are a baller car company.”